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1. Posted by Natalie Green - 1 year, 2 months, 18 hours, 11 minutes ago

   The best line of this article is the last one.

2. Posted by Todd Rainer - 1 year, 2 months, 5 hours, 27 minutes ago

   Hmm.. elves, I’ll have to remember that the first time some judge cites me for contempt….

3. Posted by Francis - 1 year, 1 month, 4 weeks, 4 hours, 36 minutes ago

   It kind of makes you think how these people built their credibility in the first place…

4. Posted by Carlos Yu - 1 year, 1 month, 4 weeks, 3 hours, 22 minutes ago

   Don’t they have funny farms for people like this? And their followers?

5. Posted by Edward - 1 year, 1 month, 4 weeks, 2 hours, 55 minutes ago

   This guy either has mental problems, or he is on some serious drugs… elves!? Come on… wait, this is the Philippines, so maybe he can be excused.

6. Posted by Grym - 1 year, 1 month, 4 weeks, 2 hours, 46 minutes ago

   “This guy either has mental problems, or he is on some serious drugs… elves!? Come on…“

   Ok… And lets see.. Lets take Jews/Christians for a min:
   They believe in an invisible wizard in the sky who, made everything and watches your every move…

7. Posted by mark - 1 year, 1 month, 4 weeks, 2 hours, 35 minutes ago

   Why did they fire him.  He said specifically that HE DID NOT CONSULT THE ELVES WHEN ISSUING JUDICIAL DECISIONS.  I see no problem here.

8. Posted by Luis - 1 year, 1 month, 3 weeks, 6 days, 11 hours, 25 minutes ago

   My master, Florentino Floro Jr, is a powerful Chaos Magician.  He created me as an avenging thought form.  It is my duty as King of Kings among the Elves to mete out punishment to the infidels that cause distress to my Lord.

   Let it be known that my vengeance can only be placated via the return of my master to his rightful place on the throne of justice.  I exist solely as an axiom of fate.  I am mischief and I am misfortune.  Woe to those whom unjustly judge my master; for I am the source of their anguish!

   -Luis The Avenger
   King of Kings
   Elven Thought Form of Master Floro

9. Posted by judge florentino floro jr. - 1 year, 1 month, 3 weeks, 6 days, 2 hours, 29 minutes ago

   Judge Floro’s Blog:

   http://angelofdeathluisarmandandangel.blogspot.com/

   Judge Floro’s 27 Philippine TV documentaries on YouTube:

   http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=judge+floro

   Judge Floro’s Auto / Article User Page on Wikipedia:

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florentino_Floro

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Florentino_floro

   Judge Floro’s 27 pages, 34, 000 views, 1, 400 replies Legendary thread on RUSH Counterparts Message Board:

   http://www.rushmessageboard.com/cpmb/index.php?showtopic=2112&st=1300&start=1300

   Judge Floro’s email and yahoo messenger:

   judge_florentino_v_floro@yahoo.com

   
   judgefloro@yahoo.com

   Judge Floro’s contact numbers:

   Celphone No. secretary Belen:

   0927-3440957

   digitel Philippines land line

   (044) 662-8203

   ==

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   Marc-Anthony Macon

   When elves take the law into their own hands…

   Florentino V. Floro Jr. is was a trial judge in Manila, Philippines. Things were going fine for Florentino until he saw fit to inform the public that he has three tiny little friends - elves that only he can see and hear.
   After being fired, Floro latched on to the gullibility of an already superstitious public, became a media celebrity and has now vowed to exact revenge on the Supreme Court, using the talents of his invisible buds:

   “It shouldn’t matter what I believe in, whether it’s Jesus, Muhammad, or Luis, Armand and Angel”

   Angel, Armand and Luis are the elves’ names, in case you’re interested. Floro calls Luis “the king of kings”. Plenty of people are lining up and defending Floro, saying that his beliefs should be just as valid as those who pray to Jesus for help. I agree with that, but I think that I would go a bit further and say that if a judge talks to someone who isn’t there, whether he has pointy ears or wears sandals, perhaps he’s really more suited to be a weird, vengeful media personality than to help decide the fate of the accused.

   Just sayin’.

   M-A

   http://www.abajournal.com/news/fired_judge_blames_elf_for_court_mishaps/

   Fired Judge Blames Elf for Court Mishaps

   Posted Sep 17, 2007, 01:50 pm CDT
   By Debra Cassens Weiss

   The Philippines Supreme Court has asked a fired judge who claims he is assisted by three elves to stop making threats of “ungodly reprisal.”
   The court kicked Florentino Floro Jr. off the bench largely because of his belief in the supernatural, the Wall Street Journal reports (sub. req.). A medical clinic determined that the judge was suffering from psychosis.
   Since then Floro has battled to get his job back, appearing on TV and winning converts who seek his healing powers. At the same time, a series of unfortunate incidents have befallen the supreme court justices or their families, including serious illnesses and car accidents.
   Floro says the person to blame for the mishaps is one of the elves, “Luis,“ a “king of kings” who is an avenger. He told the newspaper that the elves help him predict the future, but he has never consulted them when issuing judicial decisions.
   The Supreme Court has not reversed any of Floro’s decisions since firing him.

10. Posted by judge florentino floro jr. - 1 year, 1 month, 3 weeks, 6 days, 2 hours, 27 minutes ago

    http://www.newpersonalinjury.info/controversial/judge-blames-elves/
    Judge Blames Elves

    Filed under:Controversial — posted by Tom on September 17, 2007 @ 10:22 pm

    The Philippines Supreme Court who fired a judge for claiming he had elves who assisted him, has asked that judge to stop with the threats of “ungodly reprisal”.
    Judge Florentino Floro Jr. was removed fromt he bench mostly because he believed in the supernatural. A clinic has diagnosed him with psychosis.
    Floro is fighting to get his job back, he has been on television, and converts people who believe in his healing powers. Meanwhile, a string of tragic happening are occuring for the supreme court justices and their families… Things like serious illnesses and terrible car accidents.
    Floro claims the one to blame is one of the elves, “Luis” a “king of kings” who is quite vengeful. Floro has said that the elves help him predict he future, but has never consulted with the elves on judicial matters.
    The Supreme court has not reversed any of Floro’s decisions.

    http://scienceblogs.com/denialism/2007/09/the_right_to_trialby_elves.php

    The Right to Trial…By Elves

    Category: Wasting your time
    Posted on: September 17, 2007 2:23 PM, by Chris H

    The Journal’s James Hookway informs us that a trial court judge in Manila, Judge Floro, has an interesting set of consultants: three elves, only visible to the judge himself! Belief in this trio has caused the country’s supreme court to intervene and fire the judge.
    ...Mr. Floro, 54 years old, has become a media celebrity. He is now wielding his new clout to campaign for the return of his job—and exact vengeance on the Supreme Court.
    Helping him, he says, are his three invisible companions. “Angel” is the neutral force, he says. “Armand” is a benign influence. “Luis,“ whom Mr. Floro describes as the “king of kings,“ is an avenger.
    Mr. Floro has become a regular on Philippine television. Often he is asked to make predictions with the help of his invisible friends. “They say your show will be taken off the air if you don’t feature me more often,“ was Mr. Floro’s reply to one interviewer.
    The full article is worth a read for a giggle; here’s just a snippet:
    Mr. Floro says he never consulted the invisible elves over judicial decisions and the fact that he puts faith in them should make no difference to his career. “It shouldn’t matter what I believe in, whether it’s Jesus, Muhammad, or Luis, Armand and Angel,“ he says in an interview.

    http://tri-blog.livejournal.com/95005.html

    Fired Philippine judge gets advice from “elves”

    Ugh. This news is disgusting. I’m originally Chinese from the Philippines. Knowing my relatives, I feel that the widespread religious (mainly Catholic) and superstitious views there are what help keep the Philippines backward, ignorant, poor, and corrupt. People from there (including my family) believe in all sorts of ridiculous crap. They are ignorant and cynical about science, but they pony up to faith healers and fortune tellers. The lack of critical thought hurts them big time.

    In the Philippines, Ex-Judge Consults Three Wee Friends (Wall St. Journal): Mr. Floro Loses His Job But Becomes a Celebrity; Using a Little Elfin Magic

    http://bradley.chattablogs.com/archives/060640.html

    The Institute

    Discussions For Da Fellas, 2-3 Times Per Week—postings by Anthony Bradley

    September 17, 2007

    Judge Confesses To Consulting Elves Fights To Get Job Back

    (Snap, Crackle, Pop)

    Gentlemen, this is a true story (from the Wall Street Journal)
    MANILA, Philippines—As a trial-court judge, Florentino V. Floro Jr. acknowledged that he regularly sought the counsel of three elves only he could see. The Supreme Court deemed him unfit to serve and fired him last year.
    Case closed? Not in the Philippines, where vampires are said to prey on unwary travelers and wealthy politicians consult fortune tellers and card readers. Mr. Floro, 54 years old, has become a media celebrity. He is now wielding his new clout to campaign for the return of his job—and exact vengeance on the Supreme Court.
    Helping him, he says, are his three invisible companions. “Angel” is the neutral force, he says. “Armand” is a benign influence. “Luis,“ whom Mr. Floro describes as the “king of kings,“ is an avenger.
    Aight, homies, elves. Fellas, elves???? Wow.
    Three elves. What else is there to say? This guy may have some problems or maybe he really believes it. I dunno.

11. Posted by robsonsdad - 1 year, 1 month, 3 weeks, 5 days, 20 hours, 59 minutes ago

    he has seen 3 Elves so
    how many people have seen 1 God but thats ok is it.

12. Posted by judge florentino floro - 1 year, 1 month, 3 weeks, 5 days, 12 hours, 10 minutes ago

    hello i am here in philippines, jobless due to this persecutory decision

    
    http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/bac/2007/09/24/oped/g.h..arinday.jr..sunfare.html

    Monday, September 24, 2007

    
    Arinday: Self-cherishing, psychosis & other oddities
    By G.H. Arinday, Jr.
    Sunfare

    N LIFE, we encounter a lot of oddities and beg for the sublime task to render the same into linguistic idioms.

    If we say that he is an “odd man out,” the interpretation is as varied as the hues of the rainbow jealously misted by the dark nimbus cloud.

    Can you recall of a former regional trial court judge in Bulacan who was eased out of his office because he was said to be suffering from psychosis according to Supreme Court magistrates?

    Well, former RTC judge Florentino V. Floro Jr., who confessed cavorting with his three elfin friends (Luis, the “neutral force; Armand, a “benign influence”; and Angel, as the “king of kings” and as an “avenger” in the penning of his decisions), has become a sort of an international media celebrity.

    No less than “The Wall Street Journal,” in its September 17, 2007 issue and bylined by James Hookway, featured the dismissed judge who claimed in an interview that: “It shouldn’t matter what I believed in, whether it’s Jesus, Muhammad, or Luis, Armand, and Angel.”

    What the former judge said is equivalent to “self-cherishing” as the fundamental concept of the Buddhist’s philosophy on “how to enhance cherishing love.”

    In writing the verdict dismissing the judge, considering him as suffering from psychosis largely because of his belief in the supernatural, Associate Justice Minita Chico-Nazario said he has “his broad faith in mysticism and supernatural phenomena.”

    “Lest we be misconstrued, we do not denigrate such a belief system…However, such beliefs, especially since Judge Floro acted on them, are at odds with the critical and impartial thinking required of a judge under our judicial system.”

    It is not the first time that former Judge Floro attracted those engaged in human interest stories. He has been featured in English newspapers, international or regional, before “The Wall Street Journal” gave him some kind of prominence.

    The world of mystics has intrigued me a lot like the paranormal analysis of psychic Jaime Lichauco and the so-called “supernatural” and extra-sensory perceptions.

    Accordingly, “there is no accepted explanation of mysticism and few psychologists have interested themselves in its practice,” says The Columbia Encyclopedia.

    Philosophers William James gave up after failing finding the answer. On the other hand, Henri Bergson made a significant philosophical evaluation.
    Bergson, whose psychological or philosophical lectures were attended by “fashionable ladies” of his time surpassing that of Thomas Carlyle’s thought of mysticism as “subjective meditation” or a “vitalist philosophy” akin to romanticism.

    The notion of Bergson’s philosophy is the strands of continuity in probing deeper into the mysteries of life like the growth of the folk-soul or beliefs on something outside of empiricism.

    But former Judge Floro’s venture into the supernatural is overshadowed by the lawsuit filed by self-proclaimed agnostics of Nebraska, Senator Ernie Chambers of Omaha, seeking a permanent injunction against God as reported by foreign news agencies.

    And lo, behold, the injunction suit was answered by “God” who was charged with “human oppression and suffering misses an important matter.”

    As it was written, the answer was “signed by God,” citing St. Michael the Archangel as a witness,” and “God” was quoted that “I created man and woman with free will and next to the promise of immortal life, free will is my greatest gift to you.”

    Ho-hum! Such strange things are component of life’s existence. How would we treat the Nebraskan state senator? Consign him to limbo? But the place is exclusively for those “under probation” or inmates in the purgatory.

    Definitely, we cannot classify him on the same level with former Judge Floro, the latter being a firm believer in mystical matters, but Chambers is a class by himself.

13. Posted by judge florentino floro - 1 year, 1 month, 3 weeks, 5 days, 12 hours, 8 minutes ago

    http://www.wunderkabinett.co.uk/damndata/index.php?/archives/462-Judge-Floro-the-mystic-dwarfs-an-update.html

    http://www.wunderkabinett.co.uk/damndata/index.php?/archives/373-Dwarves-of-Law-revisited.html

    http://www.wunderkabinett.co.uk/damndata/index.php?/archives/1056-Dwarves-of-Law-update.html

    Monday, September 24. 2007

    ‘Dwarves of Law’ update

    Last year, we brought you an interview with Florentino Floro Jr. - the Filipino ex-Judge who apparently has healing powers and is counselled by a trio of mystical dwarves. The Wall Street Journal has an update on Floro’s attempts to be re-instated as a Supreme Court Judge and also how he has become a celebrity in the Phillipines, regularly appearing on TV chat shows. It also states that there have been a number of odd incidents since Floro’s removal from the Court system:

    [...] a series of disturbing incidents appear to have the
    nation’s top jurists rattled. According to local newspaper reports, a
    mysterious fire in January destroyed the Supreme Court’s crest in its
    session hall, and a number of members of the court and their close
    family members have developed serious illnesses or have fallen victim
    to car accidents.

    Enough bizarre things have happened that in July, the
    Supreme Court issued an en banc resolution asking Mr. Floro to desist
    in his threats of “ungodly reprisal.“ The Supreme Court’s spokesman
    declined to elaborate.

    Mr. Floro says he is not suffering from psychosis, and
    that he’s not to blame for the incidents. He points the finger squarely
    at “king of kings” elf Luis, who Mr. Floro says is bent on cleaning up
    what he says is the Philippines’ corrupt legal system

    Hat-tip to The Anomalist

    For further reading, check out Dwarves of Law revisited - the original Cabinet of Wonders interview with Florentino Floro Jr.. Also in our archives:

    Dwarves of Law - the initial report

    Judge Floro & The Mystic Dwarfs update

    
    http://www.icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/?cat_id=40764&ew_0_a_id=290137

    
    Iceland Still Believes in Elves and Ghosts

    According to a recent study on superstition in Iceland supervised by Terry Gunnell, associate folklore professor at the University of Iceland, a significant portion of participants would not rule out the existence of elves and ghosts.

    The results of the study were similar to those of a study conducted in 1974 by Professor Erlendur Haraldsson, Fréttabladid reports.

    “Icelanders seem much more open to phenomena like dreaming the future, forebodings, ghosts and elves than other nations,” Gunnell said.

    Only 13 percent of participants in the study said it is impossible that elves exist, 19 percent found it unlikely, 37 percent said elves possibly exist, 17 percent found their existence likely and eight percent definite. Five percent did not have an opinion on the existence of elves.

    More admitted to believing in ghosts. Only seven percent said their existence was impossible, 16 percent unlikely, 41 percent possible, 18 percent likely and 13 percent definite. Four percent had no opinion on the existence of ghosts.

    Gunnell was surprised by the results because the Icelandic society has changed considerably since 1974 when Haraldsson revealed that more Icelanders believed in supernatural phenomena than other nations.

    “Many factors could have affected these numbers,” Gunnell said. “A growing belief in haunting can be traced back to Hollywood movies. The city and its houses are also growing older and the countryside is becoming more mysterious.”

    The study was undertaken in 2006 and 2007 by the University of Iceland’s Faculty of Social Sciences and supported by the university’s Research Fund. About 1,000 people participated in the questionnaires.

    The results have not been fully assessed yet and interviews with some of the participants are scheduled in the near future. The final results of the study will be introduced in December.